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grets to note considerable carelessness In Professor Henry's 

 book. He announces in his preface his intention of capitalizing 

 only "some oi'd Linnean generic names still retained for species 

 and those derived from the names of persons"; but on the one 

 hand we find him writing Italica, Monspeliensls, Major, Sibiri- 

 cum, Beeringianum, Andina, Daviiricum, Moschatus, and on 

 the other convolvulus, paronychia, cymhalaria, aguifolium, malus, 

 parthenium as specific names. 



Occasionally he overlooks the fact that under the International 

 Rules trinomials are not written without an indication of the 

 category of the third member, as subspecies, variety or forma, 

 and we read Popiilus nigra Italica, Anemone patens Wolfgangiana. 

 In general, however, the subdivisions of species are more clearly 

 differentiated than in Piper, whose disposition to regard the 

 terms "subspecies" and "variety" as identical has led to much 

 confusion. But Henry does not always avoid the absurdity of 

 identical binomials, as Phegopteris phegopteris, Hypopitys 

 hypopitys (misspelled in the text). Failures in grammatical 

 agreement are far too common, such as: Equisetum arvensis, 

 Equisetum variegatum var. Alaskana, Pleuropogon refractum (an 

 error to which most Western writers stubbornly cling), Cypri- 

 pedium parviflora, Gormania oreganum, Sedum rosea, Rubus 

 viburnifolia, Geum humilis, Acer circinatum var. fulva, Malva 

 moschatus, Phyllodoce glanduliflorus, Mimulus Lewisii var. alba, 

 Mimulus Langsdorfii var. minima, Symphoricarpos racemosa, 

 Aster Lindleyana, Erigeron membranaceum, Agoseris villosum. 



This carelessness is the more regrettable, since several of these 

 blunders are found in the case of new species and varieties pro- 

 posed by the author! 



Orthographical blunders are so common as to make us wonder 

 whether the author read his proof at all. In the case of generic 

 names we are compelled to read: Hordum, Commandra, Hesperus, 

 Hypopites, Asperuga, Eriganum, Seriocarpus: and in specific 

 names: Poa Fenderiana, Papaver sominferum, Alyssum alysoides, 

 Cakile edulenta, Philadelphus Lewesii, Boykiyiia circinnata, 

 Potentilla monspielensis , Cymopterus terebinthus, Boschniakia 

 strobiliacea, Campanula rotundifolia var, petiotala, Xanthium 



